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[ChanceKJ]

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[dkersten]

I used to use those about 20 years ago when I was an audio installer, lol.  They were designed to either mount with the ring below the car speaker or over the top of it.  But in your case I bet you are just trying to cover the speaker hole (and the speaker is on the other side of the wood), so just screw the ring down to the wood around the hole and then push the grill over the ring.  The clips in your pic are called "speed clips" and are to allow you to put a screw through a hole in sheet metal (that is too big for the threads to catch) and tighten down.  You won't need them if you aren't mounting on sheet metal.

[BadMouth]

I assume everyone on this board around my age was into car audio in the 90's. 

[Sarver Systems]

I assume everyone on this board around my age was into car audio in the 90's. 

I'm with ya bud. Had my own business doing car lots for a few years.

[wp34]

I assume everyone on this board around my age was into car audio in the 90's. 

80's.  I must be a touch older.   

Interestingly enough my kids could care less about car audio sound.  My daughter can appreciate nice headphones but that is about it.

[lilshawn]

toss those clips, you won't be needing them.

i'm 30...something...I still like my bassmobile.

I hate country music, but with a decent system and some intestine rattling kick drum, even Shania Twain is tolerable.

I also did installs in the 90's...and 2000's and could set up a system by ear no problems. Used to have people bring me their vehicles cause the sound was all distorted and i would tweak the gains and the low/high pass cutoffs on the amps to fix it up and make it sound 1000% better at 2x the volume....and nobody could figure out how or why.

see, I had some surgery to repair an eardrum when i was a kid, which made my hearing in my left ear have no bass response. as such, I could plug my right ear and hear if the mid's and highs were distorting, then plug my left ear and hear if the bass was distorted. normally our hearing gets overloaded with bass and you can't tell if your mid/highs are distorted because all you hear is bass.

it's not without its caveats though, like in my own vehicle, it can sound like the subwoofer is on the seat next to me when i drive. if I'm in the passenger seat it sounds more even. 

[ChanceKJ]

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[Sarver Systems]

I'd put a piece of tape around the inner ring, then snap the outer ring on.

[lilshawn]

look like when you screw down the inner ring, the top will flare in a litte. it may cause the bottom to compensate by flaring out a little improving your fit.

if it's still an issue, a tiny bit of "butyl" will hold it in place and keep it from rattling. it often available in small portions at hardware/auto parts stores. it's black, stays pliable and can be easily removed. it's like black bubblegum. I've used it lots with speaker grills to keep them from rattling off and/or buzzing.

i suppose in a pinch some "sticky tack" dyed with black magic marker would work too as well.

[Sarver Systems]

You could also take a pair of needle-nose pliers and flare out the inner ring in a few spots.

[dkersten]

It's funny because last night I was at a bar with some friends and my son showed up with a kid he has been hanging with for the past few weeks, and about halfway through the night the kid wanders off and shows back up at our table with his step dad, who happens to be a guy I worked with back in about 94.. I taught him 90% of what he knows actually, and a few years after I left that shop he became the manager of the whole store for a number of years.  Today he owns a home theater business and mostly does home automation lately.  I showed him pictures of the arcade cab I just finished and he was wowed.. Then he was talking about how he just met a guy who has been driving 10 hours away to get car audio work done by a kid who used to be a customer of mine and got into the business after I left it 15 years ago.  Turns out this guy was ALSO at the bar and a few minutes later he brings him over and introduces me.  He says "This is the OG of car audio around here.. he taught me most of what I know, and I trained the guy who you have been taking your car to."  I had to laugh because this isn't a huge city (100k), and even so many years after getting out of the business, a large number of the people who were my customers are in the business and everyone still knows who I am.  I don't do but maybe one audio system every couple years any more.. It can be fun once in a great while, but I lost my passion for it years ago, both the installation and the listening.. My last big system of my own focused more on integrating with factory equipment than going balls deep with power and volume... Getting a factory head unit to sound really good yet still look and feel like it is completely stock is more of what gets me going today..  And honestly, a halfway decent factory system with a subwoofer is sufficient enough to not warrant any kind of aftermarket addons.. Maybe I am just getting too old, lol.